By Richard A. McCormack “There has been a slowly rising public and political debate over income inequality, the stagnation of wages for working Americans and the growing concentration of wealth among those with the highest incomes. But there has been…

By Simon Caulkin “Whether they know it or not, life-changing economic decisions are looming for the new Conservative government. The biggest issues are productivity and jobs. Both are critical to the country’s future, and good performance would do more than…

By Gerald Epstein “Gerald Epstein of PERI, U. Mass. Amherst, argues that Clinton does not go far enough by just calling for transparency in “short-termism” because buybacks of corporate stocks should be made illegal.”… [Click HERE to watch the interview]

By Ted Kaufman “On Aug. 5, the Securities Exchange Commission approved a rule that will require major public companies to regularly disclose the ratio of their CEO’s pay to the median of the annual total compensation of the company’s employees.”……

By Steve Denning “James Surowiecki, normally an insightful writer, makes a startling declaration in this week’s New Yorker: Short-termism is a myth. “It’s a common assumption, writes Surowiecki, “that companies only care about quick gains. The numbers tell a different story.”… [Click…

By Lenore Palladino “Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission finally approved a rule mandating that public companies regularly reveal the compensation gap between their chief executives and the rest of their workforce. Once the first data points from the rule…

By Cydney Posner “Lots of companies have been buying back their stock in recent years, either on their own initiative because, for example, management thinks the shares are undervalued, or sometimes at the insistence of  hedge fund activists bent on…